Gale: 494 books

The Babys Cross is a memoir about a tuberculosis survivor named Gale, a young girl who fought many obstacles in her life. She was born prematurely and with the help of a neighbor, she survived. At age two, a fall down the stairs was to take her life in a direction that seemed almost impossible to endure...

Every weekend is worth celebrating when you can relax over a good brunch. Food Network host, cookbook author, celebrated chef, and mother of three, Gale Gand has long made brunch a part of her life because it’s the easiest way to gather around the table with family and friends. Now, in Gale Gand’s...

In its basic plot structure, Miss Lulu Bett is a Cinderella story: The good-hearted young woman has been virtually enslaved by her domineering, self-serving brother-in-law and sister, with the passive assistance of the other family members. Her trap is sprung by a Prince Charming of sorts, but a truly...

In this feminist denunciation of workplace conditions for women in the early 20th, Zona Gale, suffragist, newspaperwoman, and regional writer, reveals the dark side of women's lives on the American Plains. In the midst of all this is Cosma, a young woman learning about romance and the vagaries of...

This book contains 11 short stories of neighborhood life in villages loosely related to Mid-America, by the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1921. They offer as good a picture of the Middle West and have a real value as social suggestion beside their value as stories. The span the...

The Friendship Village series best exemplifies Zona Gale's lighter touch with village life. While her Midwestern stories convey an awareness of the foibles of small-town life, they are more celebratory of the sometimes primitive democratic and community-oriented values of small-town life. Always delightful...

Peace in Friendship Village is a collection of 14 altogether charming stories about this fictional, midwest village that Zona Gale wrote about repeatedly during her long career. The Friendship Village stories an books best exemplify her lighter touch with village life. This edition of the book...

Gale Gallagher's father was a New York cop. The police station with its green lights was the place her dad worked, and the Policemen's Ball was the magic Cinderella dance she dreamed about as a little girl. Instead of the Bobbsey Twins, she read the police news and the latest murders as reported in...

Heart's Kindred was published during WW I, but it is a peace book, climaxed with a scene in which women present their view of war at a peace gathering. The hero, who has left his California mine to enlist in some army, any army, hears the women and realizes that killing is not the chief end of man. Those...

Heart's Kindred was published during WW I, but it is a peace book, climaxed with a scene in which women present their view of war at a peace gathering. The hero, who has left his California mine to enlist in some army, any army, hears the women and realizes that killing is not the chief end of man. Those...

Even today with quality improvement the battle cry of American industry, the quality programs in most companies are limited to "conformance to technical standards," according to quality expert Bradley Gale. While some have ventured a step farther to measure customer satisfaction, few of...

A newspaperman follows a beautiful woman on a search for her father to a marvelous hidden island, where the denizens travel through the fourth dimension, employ perpetual motion and do many other wonderful things. Two charming love affairs, thrilling perils, pervasive humor, most unusual scenes, a...

Two deeply empathetic novels about families in crisis from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer).   Armistead Maupin says of Patrick Gale: “Few writers have grasped the twisted dynamics of family the way Gale has. There’s...

Three keenly observant and profoundly moving novels from an international bestselling British writer “with heart, soul, and a dark and a naughty wit” (The Observer).   “Patrick Gale writes with the understated fluency that is the hallmark of contemporary British fiction, and with the irony...